Dark pour. Vanilla nose. Sweet flavor of cocoa, coconut, vanilla cream. The palate is coffee. Easy carbonation
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pours a hazy dark amber from a can. Big melange of fruit and notes of funk. Similar flavor. Good beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Can (11/30/20) pour from Fort Point Market. It's a cloudy, dull yellow with decent sparkle, finger-width white foamy head with poor retention and no lacing. Aroma is strong lemon, grapefruit, tropical fruit and pineapple. Taste is strong lemon, pineapple, melon, grapefruit. Mouthfeel is light side of light-to-medium bodied with smooth texture, average-to-lively carbonation and finish as taste with only very mild lingering dry bitterness. Overall, has the look and feel of a session but the strength and complexity of aroma and flavor of a NEIPA. Quite good where it matters most (especially for being almost 90 days old).
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Can (11/23/20) pour from Fort Point Market. It's a hazy greenish-yellow with nice sparkle, finger-width off-white foamy head with poor retention and light rings of lacing. Aroma is moderately strong European malts with mix of tart and sweet fruit. Taste is strong European malt and bitterness with hint of fruit. Mouthfeel is light side of light-to-medium bodied with thin texture, lively carbonation and bitter finish. Overall, a kiss of Vic Secret may not be enough to make this really interesting or at ~ 90 days the hops may have diminished significantly. Not that flavorful and the dominant experience is bitterness and too carbonated.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
16 oz can from Half Time, 2/16/21. Canned 11/30/20. Pots a pale golden, hazy, murky. White head, lighter lace. Fruity, with melon, grapefruit, and some tropical notes. Light, fizzy, and a little dry.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Can (11/9/20) pour from Fort Point Market. It's an opaque orange-yellow (orange juice) with tons of sparkle, finger-width large bubbled white foam head with poor retention and thin rings of lacing. Aroma is moderately strong orange and pineapple. Taste is strong citrus, pineapple with some grapefruit astringency. Mouthfeel is light-to-medium bodied with thin, frothy texture, lively carbonation and crisp finish with lingering yeasty bitterness. Overall, just beyond peak freshness window so hops may be a bit muted, if anything. But, strong flavor over aroma with nice enough look. Mouthfeel is thin for the style and over carbonated.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
16oz can pours a dark brown with some cloudy beige head. Nose has a lot, big chocolate, toasted coconut, raw vanilla, malt, licorice, some medium bodied coffee, caramel. Flavor has some s'more, mild spice, coffee, molasses. Finishes full bodied with the sweet notes, but also easy to drink. 8 3 8 4 14
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
16 oz can from Half Time, 2/15/21. Pours a fully hazed orange color with a white head and some fairly strong lacework. Fruity hops, tons of them, with papaya, mango, melon, and peach. Grapefruit, orange and lime notes as well. Quite fruit, fairly sweet, and plenty tasty.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
16oz can from Halftime. Pale yellow pour, light haze, thin foamy head. Bready, grainy aroma. Hops come quickly forward in the taste, a crisp bite with lemony notes. That bitterness lingers on the palate.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
16oz can pours a murky purple with some soft, pink/white head. Nose has passion fruit, ruby red orange, perfume, flowers, raspberry. Flavor has more berry and less citrus, grapefruit and a little paw paw or rambutan, some purple drank/popsicle. Finishes lightly tart, a little artificial sweetness on the end. Decent enough. 7 4 7 4 14